Young people prepared to sacrifice ‘vital life skills’ to cope with exam pressures, study finds

Examinations

Young people in the UK are under so much pressure to excel in exams that they’re sacrificing vital life skills, experiences, healthy relationships, and even their own happiness, warns new research. By Aftab Ali, Independent.

War Horse author Michael Morpurgo is to criticise an "apartheid" system in this country, which leaves some children feeling excluded from the world of books, stories and ideas. By Helen Ward, TES. Also reported by BBC News. Conversely, TES also reports that 'education reformers' are calling for more tests and stronger discipline.

What UK teachers can learn from Finland, where children have one of the world's best educations

General Education

Finland - as well as the Nordic region as a whole - is famed for its schools and staff, consistently topping global league tables for pupils’ performance. But it is a very different story closer to home, with the teaching profession in the UK classed as at breaking point. By Rebecca Flood, Independent.

'Reversing years of Disneyification of femininity should start in the classroom'

General Education

We tell girls that they can be whatever they want to be, yet heap praise upon them for the entirely luck-based endeavours of getting married and having babies, says the government's former mental-health champion. By Natasha Devon, TES.

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